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Farm and Garden Notes.

inches apart.
A considerable quantity of sand, well
mixed with the heavy soil, will make
beets much sweeter than if not used
Narcissuses are most effective when
planted in clumps. The bulbs should be
set at about the same depth as tulips.
A New Brunswick paper remarks
"Since the potato bugs made their ap,
pearance here the potato rot has entirely
disappeared"
If you have good grass OF clover lei
both sows and pigs run to them. They
will live and thrive on this with very
little other feed.
If good show of bloom is desired
from bulbs in the spring they should be
planted in the fall, and the earlier they
are planted the better.
One of the great drawbacks to begin
ners in poultry raising is to attempt to
keep fifty fowls in house Or lot mono
too large for twenty-five
Ensilage made from rich material and
properly preserved, says the PRAIRIE
| Farmer, is more nearly like pasturagc
than any other food we have.
Seventy-fve years ago the first toml-
toes grown in this country were cult
waited as a strange and showy horti-
cultural curiosity in a garden in Salem,
Mass.
Mr.. Chamberlain, of the Iowa Aeri-
cultu al Cottage, says of ensilage: " II
seems reasonable; it looks as though
eusilage would pay; think it has come
to stay"
BY the roller process bran is richer in
nitrogen and fat than either whole wheat
or the flour. Bran isa concentrated food
which, though variable in composition,
possesses high nutritive value.
Professor Sanborn, of Columbia Col
lege, Mo-, believes that foreground corn
cob meal has high value and coarse cob
meal but little as pig feed. He thinks
the former better than clear meal.
There is no way to prevent toads get
ting into the well except to cement over
the earth around the well for a circum-
ference of six feet, and the cover or top
of the we'll should be close and tight.
Good clover hay is always considered
as equal to any other. 1t is the standard
by which all other grasses are compared,
and no farm is considered fully supplied
for the winter that has not had a crop of
clover grown upon it.
Horses put to hard work will almost
surely show puffy spots under the harness,
which will soon make bad gals if neg
lected. Lift the harness and bathe the
spots with cold water when the teams
rest at evening. Make sure that collars,
especially, fit we'll and are smooth and
hard.
Immediately after a rain, or as soon as
the ground will permit, is the proper
time to cultivate the soil, as the grass
will then be more easily destroyed by
the suns rays when thrown up; while the
stirring of the soil for few inches will
prevent loss of moisture after dry weather
shall again set in.
1t is true that the milk of COWS that
are worried or frightened will sour much
quicker than when not so worried. In
fants fed with the milk of COWS worried
or heated by running (Which is some.
times caused by boys in bringing them
from the pasture) will suffer from collie,
and often from diarrhGa.
Turkeys do little harm but great good
on the farm from the time meadows are
moved until October. In their rambles
over the fields they destroy innumerablc
bugs, worms and grasshoppers that are
injurious to crops. They should not be
allowed to 90 wild, however, but should
be driven up every evening to roost near
the barns.
Sheep manure contains from ninety to
nincly-tive per cent. of the plant food
contained in the rations consumed by the
sheep. 1t is, therefore, very rich
fertilizer, as experience has shown. 1t is
especially rich in nitrogen in an available
form, and for that reason is excellent for
use as starter in the hill for corn and
potatoes.
Sca'y leg is caused by a minute insect
which burrows under the scales on the
shanks of fowls, causing them to enlarge.
This may be cure by dipping the shanks
of those affected into crude petroleum,
or mixture of Lard and kerosene may
be thoroughly rubbed into the scales.
Repeat the treatment in ten days and the
cure will be completed.
Asparagus roots may be put down in
the fall, but the ground should be well
prepared in advance by filling trenches
with fresh manure and allowing the
manure to heat and dccompose in the
trench after covering with earth. In the
fall the manure and earth can be incorpor-
ated and the trench will be in excellent
condition for the roots.
Hungarian grass proper has black seed
mainly. The millets have yellow seed.
Hungarian grass has less head and more
stalk and leaf, and is less liable to rust,
and hence is better hay crop and not
so good grain or seed crop. In select
! ing seed for hay crop buy of reliable
see lsnan, and take that which has the
largest possible proportion of black seed.
Prominent poultrymcn grow a large
crop of cabbage for winter use. In the
cold season the cabbage is either chopped
fine and fed to the hens or tied to small
stakes so that they can pick the heads at
will. There is no great amount of nu-
triton in cabbage, but it serves as a
change from grain to green and bulky
food. Every poult-yman should lay by
a few for the hens.
By retaining the female lambs from
ewes that usually bear twins, and annu-
ally selecting from the most prolific
breeding stock, the number of lambs may